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nine pounds. He married, November 8,<br />

1653, Catherine or Kattareen Lane, perhaps<br />

daughter <strong>of</strong> John Lane, who was <strong>of</strong><br />

Milford in 1640. Children: i. Hannah,<br />

born November 2, 1655 ; married, November<br />

7, 1672, Samuel Clark. 2. John, born<br />

September 15, 1657; married. May 29,<br />

1689, Mary Burroughs. 3. Samuel, <strong>of</strong><br />

whom further. 4. Sarah, born January 22,<br />

1661-62; married, September 10, 1685,<br />

John Humiston. 5. Daniel, born April 13,<br />

1664. 6. Mary, twin with Daniel. 7.<br />

Elizabeth, born November 19, baptized<br />

November 21, 1666; married John Read,<br />

Jr., <strong>of</strong> Norwalk. 8. David, born November<br />

14, 1668. 9. Susanna, who died Octo-<br />

ber, 1683. 10. James.<br />

(Ill) Samuel Tuttle, son <strong>of</strong> John and<br />

Catherine (Lane) Tuttle, was born January<br />

9, 1659-60, and died between 1731 and<br />

1733- He was a stone mason in calling<br />

and joined the church in New Haven in<br />

1692. He married (first) Sarah Newman,<br />

daughter <strong>of</strong> Samuel Newman, who died<br />

(second) Abigail, daughter <strong>of</strong> John Frost,<br />

and widow <strong>of</strong> Thomas Barnes. Children<br />

(<strong>of</strong> first marriage) : i. Mary, born Janu-<br />

ary 31, 1684; married, October i, 1704,<br />

Ebenezer Frost. 2. Jemima, born December<br />

6, 1686; married, in April, 1707,<br />

Thomas Jacobs. 3. Stephen, born in 1688;<br />

married Rachel Mansfield. 4. Abigail,<br />

born April 4, 1692; married, July 23,<br />

1717, Daniel Atwater. 5. Martha, born<br />

March 18, 1694; married, February 15,<br />

^7^7< John Smith. 6. Josiah, born April<br />

5, 1696; baptized in December, 1697; mar-<br />

ried, June II, 1719, Deborah Barnes. 7.<br />

Sarah, born January 17, 1698 ; married<br />

John Moulthrop. 8. Daniel, <strong>of</strong> whom fur-<br />

ther.<br />

5<br />

(IV) Daniel Tuttle, son <strong>of</strong> Samuel and<br />

Sarah (Newman) Tuttle, was born August<br />

23, 1702, and died about 1772. He<br />

married, April 25, 1726,<br />

Conn. 11—<br />

Mary Mansfield,<br />

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY<br />

^c<br />

daughter <strong>of</strong> Samuel Mansfield. Children :<br />

I. Samuel, born February 12, 1727. 2. Daniel,<br />

married Christian, daughter <strong>of</strong> Ebenezer<br />

Norton. 3. Mary, married January<br />

17. 1755. Jacob Brockett. 4. Eunice, <strong>of</strong><br />

whom further.<br />

(V) Eunice Tuttle, daughter <strong>of</strong> Daniel<br />

and Mary (Mansfield) Tuttle, was born<br />

in 1739. She married Lieutenant Jared<br />

Hill (see Hill IV).<br />

(The Fenton Line).<br />

Arms—Argent, a cross between four fleurs-de-<br />

lis sable.<br />

Crest—A fleur-de-lis enfiled with a ducal coro-<br />

net or.<br />

Schenck, in the valuable history <strong>of</strong> Fair-<br />

field, <strong>Connecticut</strong>, names Jonathan Fen-<br />

ton, or Fanton, as an early settler <strong>of</strong> that<br />

place, while Holmes, in his "Directory <strong>of</strong><br />

the Ancestral Heads <strong>of</strong> New England<br />

Families, 1620-1700," cites Robert Fenton<br />

as having been at Woburn, Massachu-<br />

setts, before 1688. The name is not numerous<br />

in New England, but its position<br />

has been at all times one <strong>of</strong> honor and<br />

respect, while alliance through marriage<br />

has been made with New England's first<br />

families.<br />

(I) Jonathan Fenton married (first)<br />

Sarah, daughter <strong>of</strong> John and Elizabeth<br />

(Harvey) Hide, <strong>of</strong> Fairfield; (second)<br />

Sarah, daughter <strong>of</strong> Humphrey Hide, and<br />

widow <strong>of</strong> Peter Coley. Children : i. Sarah,<br />

baptized November 18, 1694. 2. Ellen,<br />

baptized May 17, 1696. 3. Anne, <strong>of</strong> whom<br />

further. 4. Jonathan, baptized September<br />

22, 1700. 5. Mary, baptized May 2, 1703.<br />

6. John, baptized January 5, 1706-07; died<br />

young. 7. John, baptized October 10,<br />

1708.<br />

(II) Anne Fenton, daughter <strong>of</strong> Jona-<br />

than Fenton, was baptized August 14,<br />

1698. She married Richard Welton (see<br />

Welton III).

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